1. Friedrich Nietzsche,Kritische Studienausgabe, Band 4 (München/Berlin: de Gruyter, 1882/1887–1988), p. 146, hereafter cited as: KSA).
2. Emmanual Levinas,Totality and Infinity, trans. by Alphonso Lingis (Pittsburg: Duquesne UP 1987), pp. 216–253.
3. Martin Heidegger,Gelassenheit(Stuttgart: Neske, 1959), p. 30.
4. Karl Löwith,Martin Heidegger and European Nihilism, trans. by Gary Steiner (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995), p. 42.
5. Jürgen Habermas,The philosophical discourse of modernity, trans. by Frederick Lawrence (Cambridge/Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1990), p. 141.